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A paradox: videogames? They’re pretty good. The videogame industry? It’s bad. Like, mondo bad. A brutal parade of layoffs and exploitation, where grinning execs make out like bandits and everyone else is grist for the mill. One day, of course, the revolution will come, sweep away bourgeois society like so much dust, and the era…

For those about to build a gaming PC, we salute you. These are the dark times for PC building, with the RAMpocalypse doing very bad things to almost every facet of selecting parts for your next setup. But we’re still big fans of building your own PC here at PC Gamer—it may not be any…

With 32 GB DDR5 memory kits now all sporting colossal price tags, it might seem that doing a full upgrade of your gaming PC’s CPU, motherboard, and memory is out of the question. That’s because 16 GB of DRAM isn’t enough, right? Especially if you have a high-end graphics card or you play games with…

That’s a wrap on Amazon’s Fallout season 2, folks. The final episode has now aired, tying up some loose ends. But not everything has an answer—there is a third season after all—and many fans of the series are still left wondering what exactly the events of the second season mean for the game’s canon. Major…

Sean Martin, Senior Guides Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: slaying yokai in Sengoku period Japan in Nioh 3 This week I’ve been: hammering every Hulk I can lay my hands on in Helldivers 2 I love melee combat in games, but it never quite clicked for me with Helldivers 2. The closest…

Stardew Valley is basically the videogame equivalent of Star Wars at this point—even if you’ve never seen a single movie, you probably still know who Darth Vader is. You’d think being an all-encompassing phenomenon would mean that every stone had been turned and every secret discovered. Well, nope. As Barone tells IGN in a recent…

If you’re anything like me, your Epic Games Store account is a kind of Library of Alexandria of free-but-unplayed games. Every so often you open the site, add whatever the current free game is to your collection, then never, ever, ever play them. Perhaps some day a long winter will come, and we’ll all sit…

Fair to say we’re all desperate for a way out of the AI-driven memory and storage supply crisis, right? Well, how about a new class of old-school magnetic hard drives optimised for AI and with “flash-like” performance that might take the pressure off NAND memory and SSDs? That’s exactly what storage specialist WD has announced….

Having a very big game that everyone loves feels like a blursed position to be in. On the one hand, cool! You made something and everyone likes it and thinks very fondly of it. On the other hand, oh no. Everyone likes this thing you made and now expect that level of greatness again and…

AMD’s latest earnings call has revealed something that gamers might have already guessed: its Ryzen desktop and mobile CPUs have been selling like hotcakes. According to AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: “In client, our PC processor business performed exceptionally well. “Revenue increased 34% year over year to a record $3.1 billion, driven by increased demand…